Dell and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Create Preservation Archive with Open Source Fedora Repository Software
28 9월 2012 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Working with Dell, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign has created a new digital archive for its
university system that simplifies how it manages digital assets,
including rare books and faculty intellectual property output such
as research documents, papers and lectures — content typically
produced in multiple digital formats. The new archive reduces
storage costs and streamlines the management, retention and
protection of scholarly works through a solution based on the Dell
DX Object Storage Platform and DuraSpace Open Source Fedora Commons
Repository Software. Critical for the university was the ability to
meet today’s needs and to scale efficiently over time as digital
content evolves and grows.
Explosive data growth and large data sets make it more difficult
for libraries, museums and government organizations to efficiently
preserve and protect documents, multimedia content and digital
assets for future generations. As one of the largest public
university libraries in the world, the Library at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign manages the intellectual property and
digital content created by faculty, administrators and students --
from one-of-a-kind, fragile books that can create 600 to 800 image
objects once digitized, to retiring professors’ collections of work
over a 20- to 25-year tenure.
After considering its digital archive and retention goals, the
University of Illinois customized a version of Fedora Repository
Software and combined it with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform.
The platform automatically replicates an archive master and a
working master of each file to simplify data backup, storing one
copy on the University’s main library cluster and a second copy in
its engineering library. In the future, a third copy will be
archived in the cloud to further simplify data access and sharing
across the University system. The Dell DX Platform also produces
metadata to manage the archive, identifying files that need to be
transitioned from older to newer digital formats for future
generations. And the DX Object Storage Platform’s plug and play
framework lets archivists add additional retention capacity to the
digital archive as it is needed, simply and efficiently.
Quotes
John Mullen, Vice President, Education and State & Local
Government, Dell
“With the transition from stacks and the Dewey Decimal system to
bytes, clusters and metadata, academic libraries need a digital
archiving strategy that addresses their immediate and future needs.
The University of Illinois’ innovative and open approach to this
challenge is a practical model for any university.”
Thomas Habing, Research Programmer, Research and Development,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
“This opportunity provides us with extra resources to further
the development of the Library’s digital preservation archive. It
also allows us to continue to utilize Open Source Fedora Commons
Repository Software while at the same time employing a
commercially-supported object storage platform with many digital
preservation features, such as replication and validation, which we
will not need to implement ourselves. Plus, we can share all of our
development efforts back to the open source community which helps
everyone, including Dell.”
Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace
“The Open Source Fedora Repository Platform is used by more than
400 institutions around the globe. We believe commercial
implementations, such as Dell, provide our users with the best of
both worlds -- hardware and services from a large-scale commercial
vendor integrated with open source software, Fedora Repository. The
total package provides users with greater transparency and
durability in the long run.”
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers
innovative technology and services that give them the power to do
more. For more information, visit www.dell.com.
About University of Illinois
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long been
ranked among the nation’s most distinguished teaching and research
institutions. Its diverse, world-class programs reflect the mission
of a land-grant university. The largest public university in
Illinois, the Urbana campus was chartered by the state in 1867 as
the Illinois Industrial University and opened its doors to students
in 1868. Its library is ranked highly nationally and globally, and
its collections and services are used heavily by students, faculty,
and scholars. For more information, please visit
www.library.illinois.edu.
About DuraSpace
DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace
software and services are used worldwide as solutions for open
access, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital
archives, data curation, virtual research environments and more.
The organization’s open-source technology portfolio includes DSpace
open access repository application and the Fedora open repository
platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, a cloud-based
software service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to
enable durability and access to digital content. For more
information, visit www.duraspace.org.
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